International keyboard

[rmorette]

Hi all,

I'm using the Linux build of PCem. Brazilian keyboards have an extra key mapped as the "slash/question mark" that is not working under PCem. The scancode for this key is 0x73.

I figured out that SDL maps this key as SDL_SCANCODE_INTERNATIONAL1, so I added it to the array SDLScancodeToSystemScancode as "SDL_SCANCODE_INTERNATIONAL1, 0x73" in wx-sdl2-display.c

I tried to map it in scancode_set2 array at keyboard.c with "{0x73, 0}, {0xf0, 0x73, 0}" but it is mapping as the number 5 of numeric keyboard. This array seems to be using different values from the tables that I have.

How do I proper pass the 0x73 scancode to the VM?

Thanks!

[rmorette]

Nevermind, just figured out what was wrong. for documentation, the proper code is 0x51

[EluanCM]

You may also notice that deadkeys won't work

[rmorette]

Deadkeys seems to be working fine after configuring keyb under MS-DOS 6.22 on an AMI 386 and a Shutte-HOT P133. But I didn't test this very well yet.

[rmorette]

If anyone is interested, here is a patch to fix the issue with the slash key on the BR ABNT keyboard:

at-br-keyboard.txt

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It will only work with AT class machines, probably not all since some machines uses other keyboards mappings. Tested good on an AMI 286, AMI 386 and Shuttle HOT-557.

Untested on PCem for Windows.